Boy : Tales of Childhood

by Dahl, Roald (Author)

• ISBN13: 9780140089172
• ISBN10: 0140089179
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1988-09-01
• Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)

Summary

Boy is a funny, insightful and at times macabre glimpse into the early life of Roald Dahl, one of the world's favourite authors. We discover his experiences of the English public school system, the idyllic paradise of summer holidays in Norway, the pleasures (and pains) of the sweetshop, and how it is that he avoided being a Boazer. This is the unadulterated childhood - sad and funny, sinister and delightful - that inspired the much-loved children's writer. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Starting-point
Papa and Mama	11	(9)
Kindergarten, 1922--3	20	(7)
Llandaff Cathedral School, 1923--5 (age 7-9)
The bicycle and the sweet-shop	27	(8)
The Great Mouse Plot	35	(3)
Mr. Coombes	38	(8)
Mrs Pratchett's revenge	46	(7)
Going to Norway	53	(7)
The magic island	60	(8)
A visit to the doctor	68	(7)
St. Peter's, 1925-9 (age 9--13)
First day	75	(5)
Writing home	80	(5)
The Matron	85	(8)
Homesickness	93	(6)
A drive in the motor-car	99	(9)
Captain Hardcastle	108	(15)
Little Ellis and the boil	123	(4)
Goat's tobacco	127	(8)
Repton and Shell, 1929--36 (age 13--20)
Getting dressed for the big school	135	(6)
Boazers	141	(3)
The Headmaster	144	(3)
Chocolates	147	(3)
Corkers	150	(4)
Fagging	154	(6)
Games and photography	160	(6)
Goodbye school	166